Okay for Now - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Okay for Now write by Gary D. Schmidt. This book was released on 2011-04-05. Okay for Now available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 2011 National Book Award Finalist As a fourteen-year-old who just moved to a new town, with no friends and a louse for an older brother, Doug Swieteck has all the stats stacked against him. So begins a coming-of-age masterwork full of equal parts comedy and tragedy from Newbery Honor winner Gary D. Schmidt. As Doug struggles to be more than the “skinny thug” that his teachers and the police think him to be, he finds an unlikely ally in Lil Spicer—a fiery young lady who “smelled like daisies would smell if they were growing in a big field under a clearing sky after a rain.” In Lil, Doug finds the strength to endure an abusive father, the suspicions of a whole town, and the return of his oldest brother, forever scarred, from Vietnam. Together, they find a safe haven in the local library, inspiration in learning about the plates of John James Audubon’s birds, and a hilarious adventure on a Broadway stage. In this stunning novel, Schmidt expertly weaves multiple themes of loss and recovery in a story teeming with distinctive, unusual characters and invaluable lessons about love, creativity, and survival.
The Wednesday Wars
The Wednesday Wars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Wednesday Wars write by Gary D. Schmidt. This book was released on 2007. The Wednesday Wars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this Newbery Honor-winning novel, Gary D. Schmidt tells the witty and compelling story of a teenage boy who feels that fate has it in for him, during the school year 1968-68. Seventh grader Holling Hoodhood isn't happy. He is sure his new teacher, Mrs. Baker, hates his guts. Holling's domineering father is obsessed with his business image and disregards his family. Throughout the school year, Holling strives to get a handle on the Shakespeare plays Mrs. Baker assigns him to read on his own time, and to figure out the enigmatic Mrs. Baker. As the Vietnam War turns lives upside down, Holling comes to admire and respect both Shakespeare and Mrs. Baker, who have more to offer him than he imagined. And when his family is on the verge of coming apart, he also discovers his loyalty to his sister, and his ability to stand up to his father when it matters most.
Just Like That
Just Like That - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Just Like That write by Gary D. Schmidt. This book was released on 2021-01-05. Just Like That available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this poignant, perceptive, witty novel, Gary D. Schmidt brings authenticity and emotion to multiple plot strands, weaving in themes of grief, loss, redemption, achievement, and love. Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene's Preparatory Academy for Girls, where she struggles to navigate the venerable boarding school's traditions and a social structure heavily weighted toward students from wealthy backgrounds. In a parallel story, Matt Coffin has wound up on the Maine coast near St. Elene's with a pillowcase full of money lifted from the leader of a criminal gang, fearing the gang's relentless, destructive pursuit. Both young people gradually dispel their loneliness, finding a way to be hopeful and also finding each other.
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy write by Gary D. Schmidt. This book was released on 2004. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Turner Buckminster is purely miserable. Not only is he the son of the new minister in a small Maine town, but he is shunned for playing baseball differently from the local boys.
What Came from the Stars
What Came from the Stars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook What Came from the Stars write by Gary D. Schmidt. This book was released on 2012. What Came from the Stars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In a desperate attempt for survival, a peaceful civilization on a faraway planet besieged by a dark lord sends its most precious gift across the cosmos into the lunchbox of Tommy Pepper, sixth grader, of Plymouth, Massachusetts.
